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My Brooklyn, My Way

Author: Martin Lewis Blumberg

Publisher: Xlibris Us

Published: 2020-01-15

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9781796070668

There must be something in our souls that cries out to explain to the world not only who we are but also how it was we got to be the person our friends and family know and love. For Martin Blumberg, the path of explaining himself to the world begins by understanding the way the world around him influenced his experiences and choices and how he interacted with family, friends, teachers, and neighborhood businesses as he grew up in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. What puzzles us all is the mystery of how the kids we grew up with in those same surroundings went on to become either well-educated and respected professionals and businessmen, or gangsters and incarcerated criminals. Ultimately, growing up is a never-ending series of choices and interactions, some good, some not so, but ultimately, in balance, the better choices lead us to the happiness and self-satisfaction we enjoy, along with our many accomplishments. My dear friend Marty Blumberg has traveled a fascinating and unique path as he grew up in Brownsville and then to Canarsie neighborhoods, which colored and influenced his early life and molded him to become the great guy we all know and love. This is Martin's story, and it beautifully explains him to all of us, and, no doubt, through his introspections and insights, most importantly, explains him to himself. -Roger Elowitz

My Brooklyn . . . Your Brooklyn

Author: Kevin J. Leddy

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2017-07-11

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1543428584

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Let me just say that if you took two people who grew up in different neighborhoods in Brooklyn and sat them down in a room together they could talk for hours on end and basically share the same stories as if they grew up right next door to each other You see that is why I am writing this book. The stories that I will share with you as you turn each page do not belong to me exclusively. They are YOUR stories just as much as they are mine. All you really have to do is change the names and faces and use your own neighborhood as their back drop and believe me they are yours. I have included after each story an empty page for you to put your story on it so it will become “Your Brooklyn “ and a journal to pass on to those who you wish to remember your story

My Brooklyn, My Way

Author: Martin Lewis Blumberg

Publisher: Xlibris Us

Published: 2020-01-15

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9781796070675

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Brooklyn Boomer

Author: Martin H. Levinson

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2011-05-20

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1462017134

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Martin H. Levinson lived in Brooklyn from his birth in 1946 to 1962, the height of the baby boom following World War II. He grew up two blocks from Ebbets Field, the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and attended Erasmus Hall High School, which boasts alums such as Neil Diamond, Barbra Streisand, and chess-wiz Bobby Fischer. The author's personal recollections of his middle-class childhood in Brooklyn during the 1950s alternate with chapters detailing seminal cultural events of that era including the advent of television, fast-food restaurants, big cars with fins; desegregation and the white flight to the suburbs; rock and roll, beatniks, hula hoops, The Kinsey Reports, the Cold War, McCarthyism, Playboy, and much more. Part memoir, part social history, Brooklyn Boomer offers a captivating portrait of Brooklyn and America in the mid-twentieth Century.

I Have Lost My Way

Author: Gayle Forman

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2019-04-16

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0425290786

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The New York Times bestseller from the author of If I Stay “Heartwrenching…If you are ready to be emotionally wrecked yet again, you are in luck.” – Hypable A fateful accident draws three strangers together over the course of a single day: Freya who has lost her voice while recording her debut album. Harun who is making plans to run away from everyone he has ever loved. Nathaniel who has just arrived in New York City with a backpack, a desperate plan, and nothing left to lose. As the day progresses, their secrets start to unravel and they begin to understand that the way out of their own loss might just lie in helping the others out of theirs. An emotionally cathartic story of losing love, finding love, and discovering the person you are meant to be, I Have Lost My Way is bestselling author Gayle Forman at her finest. “A beautifully written love song to every young person who has ever moved through fear and found themselves on the other side.” – Jacqueline Woodson, bestselling author of Brown Girl Dreaming

Tommy Lasorda

Author: Colin Gunderson

Publisher: Triumph Books

Published: 2015-04-01

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1633191583

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Tommy Lasorda believed that winning wasn't about being the best, but about believing you are the best and that philosophy runs throughout Tommy Lasorda: My Way. Author Colin Gunderson takes readers through Lasorda's days as a player and the manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, including their two World Series Championships in 1981 and 1988. It also provides fans with a peek at what makes Lasorda tick: his relationship with his father, Sabatino, whom he emulated; his childhood growing up in Norristown, Pennsylvania, working odd jobs; and his unfailing work ethic. That work ethic helped him become one of baseball's most successful managers as he won the World Series twice, won four National League pennants and eight division titles with the Dodgers. In this book, fans will recall some of their favorite Lasorda anecdotes, and will also be privy to new information and rich background on this national baseball treasure, including memories from an All-Star roster of Dodgers stars.

Brooklyn, the Way I Remember It

Author: George DeLorenzo

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2016-03-18

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 150497655X

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This story takes the reader on a journey of how growing up in an Italian family in a predominantly Italian neighborhood within the protective glow of the boy's family and the local Mob bosses, as well as learning how to survive in the streets of the East New York section of Brooklyn forms the character of a young man. The era of racism, the dawning of rock and roll music, and an angelic visit - all events that helped shape the man as he is today. The story demonstrates how all of these events affected the writer personally and deeply. The reader is engrossed by the struggle of the boy trying to heed the morals and values instilled by family and church, keeping those intact while attempting to balance them with societal demands and the clash of surviving the mean streets of Brooklyn.

Finding My Way

Author: Evelyn Stefansson Nef

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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Reading Evelyn Stefansson Nef's autobiography is like watching time-lapse photographs of a rose in the process of blooming. Each petal in random sequence breaks free from the bud and stretches out in all directions. The intricately textured flower in full bloom gives little hint of its humble beginning. Born in 1913 the child of Hungarian-Jewish immigrants, Evelyn grew up in Brooklyn. Her memories of her early years are dominated by a sense of joylessness, a remote and fragile mother, and a father she adored who died suddenly when she was thirteen. While studying art at high school in Manhattan Evelyn frequently visited a Greenwich Village restaurant called Romany Marie's, a popular gathering place for artists and writers. Among her new acquaintances was the futurist inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller, who became an intimate friend. As a bright, talented, and attractive young woman, Evelyn moved freely within New York's theatrical and literary worlds of the 1930s. Under the tutelage of master puppeteer, Bil Baird, with whom she had a passionate but short-lived marriage, she became accomplished in the art of marionettes.

Eating My Way Through Baseball

Author: Barry Weinberg

Publisher: Gatekeeper Press

Published: 2020-03-22

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1642376612

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What an amazing journey for Edith and Harold's only Son! I have spent 33 years in the Major Leagues, traveling around the world eating at the best restaurants, such as Tramonti in Delray Beach, Florida to La Scarola in Chicago IL to Hunan Homes in San Francisco, CA. I have shared meals with some of the world's greatest people such as Neil Armstrong, Charles Barkley, Bob Knight, Yogi Berra, Thurman Munson, Stan Musial, Red Schoendienst, Jack Buck and so many more. My spectacular journey includes stories from behind-the-scenes of my professional baseball career that, until now, were only told in clubhouses, dugouts, or when out to dinner with me. Life is a journey...enjoy the meal! Bon Appetit!

Back to Brooklyn

Author: Lawrence Kelter

Publisher:

Published: 2017-05

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9781946502018

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"The sequel to My cousin Vinny"--Jacket.